The quartet will be playing Shostakovich quartets nos. 11, 8 and 5. On the face of it Shostakovich's intense quartets would seem a strange choice for a work based on the circus, but the company has a history of challenging and fascinating work. They collaborated with Robert Hollingworth's I Fagiolini for How like and Angel at last year's City of London Festival
Choreography and staging are by Yaron Lifschitz, Circa's artistic director. The event runs from 18 to 22 February 2014, further information from the Barbican website. There is a preview video after the break.
Elsewhere on this blog:
- Fine inner life: Handel's Theodora at the Barbican
- Women as Men, my article on Classical Music Magazine
- Astonishing: Tavener's Veil of the Temple - CD review
- A force to be reckoned with: Melos Sinfonia in Panufnik and Myaskovsky
- All is lost: Peter Grimes at ENO
- Magic by candle-light: Duchess of Malfi at the Globet Theatre's Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
- Rare opera: Alessandro Scarlatti's Carlo Re d'Alemagna - CD review
- His Tuneful Voice: Iestyn Davies sings Handel with the King's Consort - CD review
- Sing with a Swing: London A Cappella Festival
- Love Journeys: An encounter with Jacques Cohen
- Not for the fainthearted: JACK Quartet at the Wigmore Hall
- For completists only? Vivaldi's Concerto per archi from Concerto Italiano - CD review
- Stunning performances: Russian Treasures from Tenebrae - CD review
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